Category: New Yorker 2010

> This is an okay story, but it’s not something I want to read in The New Yorker. Erick is 11, Mexican, being raised…

> Amanda is an artist who teaches at a pre-school in Cambridge. She gets dumped by her fiancé shortly before the wedding. She understands…

> Dialogue flood. This story, which otherwise has a conventional arc—and maybe that’s the reason Doctorow made this choice, in order to freshen it…

> The narrator is Lalo Cura, the son of a woman who acted in porn films in Colombia even while she was pregnant with…

> Huh? So the man (who has no name, which means he’s “everyman” I suppose) plays hooky from work and watches TV, but realizes…

> Here’s another story from New Zealander Janet Frame, who died in 2004. In this one, Gavin Highly is the town oddity, a guy…

> I’m not a JCO fan, ordinarily, but in my estimation this is the best story of the year so far. Lisette Mulvey is…

> Yunior, who is still in high school, lives with his older brother Rafa and their mother. But Rafa has leukemia, and has been…

> On the plus side, this doesn’t seem to be an excerpt from a novel. On the other hand, it’s not much of a…

> Just two months ago, The New Yorker published “Safari,” an excerpt from Jennifer Egan’s forthcoming novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad. It…